What’s New with VMwarevCloud Director 9.7Feature Overview

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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

HTML5 Tenant Portal Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

HTML5 Provider Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Central Point of Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

vCloud Director Appliance Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

NSX Edge Placement Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Flex Allocation Model and Compute Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

vCloud API, Python SDK and vRealize Orchestrator Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Terraform Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Role-based Access Control for Container Service Extension (CSE) . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Additional Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

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What’s New with VMware vCloud Director 9.7

OverviewVMware vCloud Director (vCD) is the central Cloud Management and Orchestration platform within the VMware Cloud Provider Platform, enabling Service Providers to orchestrate the provisioning of software-defined, modular and ready-for-consumption Virtual Data Centers in a matter of minutes.

Version 9.7 of vCD adds features that leverage the server virtualization capabilities of VMware vSphere and Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) functionality to offer Service Providers a powerful platform for delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. It provides an enhanced customer and provider experience, enables centralized global cloud management for private and multi-tenant clouds, allows simplified deployment and scalability options and offers flexible customization, extensibility and integration options.

VMware vCloud Director 9.7 includes these new features and functionalities:

• HTML5 Tenant Portal Enhancements and Per-Tenant Branding Options

• HTML5 Provider Portal Enhancements

• Access to Dedicated Private vCenter Instances through the Tenant Portal

• vCD Appliance Improvements

• NSX Edge Placement Enhancements

• Flex Allocation Model and Compute Profiles

• Python SDK, VCD-CLI and vRO Plugin upgrades

• Terraform Provider 2.0

• Container Service Extension (CSE) 1.2s

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HTML5 Tenant Portal EnhancementsVersion 9.7 of vCloud Director provides several enhancements to the HTML5 tenant portall:

• Network Diagram view for vApps

• Global Search

• Improved Org VDC Network configuration

It is now possible to customize the look and feel of the tenant portal, either globally or even on a per-tenant basis.

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This includes CSS specifications for the portal colors and layout, custom links in the Help menu and custom favicon and tab title to optimize the user experience.

Optionally, the tenant login page can be customized as well (again, on a per-tenant basis).

The UI Plugin API was also enhanced; it is now possible to add custom menu items into the contextual menus of VMs and vApps:

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HTML5 Provider PortalIn vCD 9.7 a lot of provider-facing workflows are now available in the HTML5 provider portal:

• Org VDC details

• Org VDC creation wizard

• Edge Gateway details

• Edge creation wizard

• Provider VDC details

• vCenter details

• NSX-T Manager details

• Multi-site resource listings

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Central Point of ManagementvCloud Director 9.7 introduces new functionality that allows tenants to access dedicated private vCenters through vCloud Director. Service Providers can now deliver vCenters with a branded Cloud Portal experience, without the need to set up VPNs. vCD acts as proxy to API calls to the vCenters.

vCloud Director Appliance EnhancementsvCloud Director 9.5 introduced the option to deploy vCD as appliance, in addition to the common installation binary file. In 9.7, the appliance has been further enhanced; it includes a postgres database and now it’s possible to deploy the appliance in an HA configuration. The new appliance also contains two virtual NICs to allow more flexible network configurations.

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NSX Edge Placement EnhancementsIn the NSX reference architecture, all the NSX edge service gateways and DLR control VMs should be placed in dedicated edge clusters for north-south network connectivity of the data center. In vCloud Director, cloud administrators can now specify the primary and secondary edge clusters into which all NSX edge service gateways created and managed by vCloud Director will be placed. No compute workloads will be placed by vCloud Director into the edge clusters.

Flex Allocation Model and Compute ProfilesIn addition to the known allocation models -- reservation pool, allocation pool and pay-as-you-go -- there is now a new allocation model called flex allocation.

Starting with vCloud Director 9.7, administrators can create organizational virtual data centers (VDC) using the flex allocation model. With the combination of flex allocation and VDC compute policies, administrators can control CPU and RAM consumption at both the VDC and the individual virtual machine levels. The flex allocation model supports all allocation configurations that are available in existing allocation models.

With compute policies, system administrators control the compute resource consumption and host placement of VMs in a virtual data center (VDC).

Provider VDC compute policies contain VM group information and control the host placement of VMs that tenant users create in an organization’s VDC.

VDC compute policies control resource consumption for individual VMs within an organization’s VDC.

The flex allocation model supports the capabilities of organizational VDC compute policies. Users in the organization’s VDC can specify reservation, limit and shares values when creating a virtual machine. Using the combination of the flex allocation model and organizational VDC compute policies, a single VDC can accommodate virtual machines that use configurations that are common for all other allocation models.

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What’s New with VMware vCloud Director 9.7

vCloud API, Python SDK and vRealize Orchestrator PluginvCloud Director 9.7 provides a new API: version 32.0. API version 20 is marked as deprecated and will be removed in future releases. The Python SDK, vcd-cli and the vRO Plugin for vCD have been updated accordingly.

Python SDK: https://github.com/vmware/pyvcloud

VCD-CLI: https://github.com/vmware/vcd-cli

This release ends the support for Java SDK and .net SDK; the Python SDK is fully supported and will be in the future.

Terraform ProviderVersion 2.0 of the Terraform Provider for vCD is available. This version has a restructured data model and some semantic changes. It uses a newly built Go module for vCD and provides additional network support.

Documentation: https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/vcd/

Open-source repository of the terraform provider: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-vcd

Go module for vCloud Director: https://github.com/vmware/go-vcloud-director

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Role-based Access Control for Container Service Extension (CSE)vContainer Service Extension (CSE) allow service providers to offer Kubernetes-as-a-service to their tenants. The solution is available open-source and decoupled from vCD releases. Version 1.2.6 introduced a key enhancement: role-based access control (RBAC). The new feature gives service providers the ability to monetize Kubernetes service offerings by selectively enabling tenant access to CSE. A tenant admin can then use the role-based access control to assign Kubernetes operator roles within their organization.

For more details see this article: https://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2019/02/role-based-access-control-container-service-extension.html

Container Service Extension: https://vmware.github.io/container-service-extension/ INTRO.html

Additional ResourcesFor more information about the VMware vCloud Director software solution, visit the product pages at https://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director.html

For vCloud Director case studies, whitepapers, customer testimonials and more visit https://cloudsolutions.vmware.com/

Access the documentation for vCloud Director software at https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/index.html

To purchase the vCloud Director software solution or to find out how you can join the VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP), visit https://www.vmware.com/partners/ service-provider/

Custom Design and Automated Deployment of vCloud Director using Cloud Provider Pod: https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-provider-pod.html

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